Readers Unbound is privileged to welcome Pearl McHaney as today’s guest blogger. Many readers shy away from poetry, afraid of not understanding, expecting not to been entertained. American poet and pediatrician William Carlos Williams wrote a long love poem titled “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower.” Near its end, I find my mantra for the significance […]
Monthly Archives: July 2016
When my husband and I married in 1964, one of the first things we did was buy a dog. Not just ANY dog, but a dachshund. Originally, we had yearned for a basset hound, but the couple next door to us in our first apartment had one, and his feet were bigger than mine. So . […]
(Yesterday’s post, Part 1, mused on the connections between stories, in particular the story of how Joe and I met and eventually traveled to Navajoland to get married. If you missed it, visit the Home Page.) The Puritans believed God gave us two sacred texts–the Bible and Nature. All we have to do, they said, was look, really […]
People often ask writers, Where do you get your stories? One answer is, They are all around you. Listen. It was in the Santa Fe Museum of Indian Arts & Culture that I first saw them, a collection of clay figurines made by the Pueblo people of New Mexico. Based on the tradition of the […]
Five days from now I’m leaving my fluttery skirts and tank-tops behind and going to Iceland. I’ve skimmed a guidebook or two, but mostly I’m preparing by reading The Sagas of Icelanders. Sure, it might not be super relevant to cafés in Reykjavik or useful as to which camping sites are the best, but for […]
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